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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1997-provisions-in-relation-to-the-ncis-service-authority-order-1998/article-C8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/633",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Act 1997 (Provisions in relation to the NCIS Service Authority) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1997-provisions-in-relation-to-the-ncis-service-authority-order-1998",
  "path": "article/C8",
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  "number": "C8",
  "heading": "Supplemental provisions and offences",
  "text": "(1) A document directed by any provision of this Part to be open to inspection shall be so open at all reasonable hours and—\n(a) in the case of a document open to inspection by virtue of article C4(1) above, upon payment of such reasonable fee as may be required for the facility; and\n(b) in any other case, without payment.\n(2) Where a document is open to inspection by a person under any provision of this Part, the person may, subject to paragraph (3) below—\n(a) make copies of or extracts from the document, or\n(b) require the person having custody of the document to supply to him a photographic copy of or of extracts from the document,\nupon payment of such reasonable fee as may be required for the facility.\n(3) Paragraph (2) above does not require or authorise the doing of any act which infringes the copyright in any work except that, where the owner of the copyright is the Authority, nothing done in pursuance of that paragraph shall constitute an infringement of the copyright.\n(4) If, without reasonable excuse, a person having the custody of a document which is required by article C2(1) or C3(1) above to be open to inspection by the public—\n(a) intentionally obstructs any person exercising a right conferred by this Part to inspect, or to make a copy of or extracts from, the document, or\n(b) refuses to furnish copies to any person entitled to obtain them under any provisions of this Part,\nhe shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.\n(5) Where any accessible document for a meeting to which this paragraph applies—\n(a) is supplied to, or open to inspection by, a member of the public, or\n(b) is supplied for the benefit of any newspaper, in pursuance of article C2(7) above.\nthe publication thereby of any defamatory matter contained in the document shall be privileged unless the publication is proved to be made with malice.\n(6) Paragraph (5) above applies to any meeting of the Authority and any meeting of a committee of the Authority; and, for the purposes of that paragraph, the “accessible documents” for a meeting are the following—\n(a) any copy of the agenda or of any item included in the agenda for the meeting;\n(b) any such further statements or particulars for the purpose of indicating the nature of any item included in the agenda as are mentioned in article C2(7)(b) above;\n(c) any copy of a document relating to such an item which is supplied for the benefit of a newspaper in pursuance of article C2(7)(c) above;\n(d) any copy of the whole or part of a report for the meeting;\n(e) any copy of the whole or part of any background papers for a report for the meeting, within the meaning of article C4 above.\n(7) The rights conferred by this Part to inspect, copy and be furnished with documents are in addition, and without prejudice, to any such rights conferred by or under any other enactment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/633/article/C8",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}